Duty-hours monitoring revisited: self-report may not be adequate.

Heather A Thompson Buum; Alisa M. Duran-Nelson; Jeremiah Menk; James Nixon

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Duty-hours monitoring revisited: self-report may not be adequate.

June 19, 2013

Buum HAT, Duran-Nelson AM, Menk J, et al. Am J Med. 2013;126(4):362-5.

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Comparing self-reported duty hours with automated parking card data, this study found that parking time stamps identified more duty hour violations, implying that resident self-reporting may not be a reliable method for monitoring duty hour compliance.

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